Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each story, for the most part, reads like a memoir of Moore's own life (hence the unusual story structures). Moore, a college English professor, fills the book with twenty- to forty-year-old women, generally scholars; one's an SAT consultant, another a professor, another a librarian and the rest teachers. The exceptions include a middle-aged, forgotten actress and a disillusioned, lovelorn man. The stories are sprinkled with pop culture references to the early nineties: several references to Forrest Gump ("`Such a career-ender for Tom Hanks,'" one character remarks), mention of the Gulf War, of O.J. Simpson...
According to Suzanne G. Kemple, associate librarian and head of reference for Hilles Library, the library purchase a new typewriter for the first time since...
...There was a bit of a delay in getting that work completed and getting the master clock hooked up again," said Heather E. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont libraries...
...clear that the University wanted to address the issues, but it was difficult...to appeal to donors" with requests for wires and sheet metal, said Nancy M. Cline, Larsen librarian of HarvardCollege. "[Loker] looked beyond the mundane" andmade an "investment in the future of Harvard."Without her, "it would have been a much longerprocess," she said...
...been able to raise the funds we always seek from private sources for exhibits. Despite inaccurate media reports, there was never any doubt the Freud show would take place. The library welcomes responsible controversy about the many exhibits it mounts of its rich and varied materials. JAMES H. BILLINGTON, Librarian Library of Congress Washington...